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The incorporation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into Spanish educational legislation as a framework for addressing student diversity has been met with criticism. Three main objections can be identified. Firstly, the lack of evidence supporting its neuroscientific basis. Secondly, the scarcity of empirical data to demonstrate its efficacy for improving learning. Thirdly, the difficulty in operationalizing and implementing its framework in practice. Based on a thorough review of key literature on UDL, this paper delves into and discusses these limitations considering the theoretical and practical foundations of the model. Furthermore, research directions are pointed out to advance its development, exploring its potential as a framework for identifying barriers for learning in lesson plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teachers, in their teaching practice, link the use of ICT with their pedagogical beliefs, although this connection needs further study. For this reason, the aim of this paper is to determine the structural relationship between the use of ICT and the pedagogical beliefs of teachers, since both constructs contribute to ICT integration. A quantitative research design of correlational type and a sample of 1002 teachers of Primary Education and Secondary Education were used. The results show the positive relationship of the use of technological resources with the constructivist conception, while in the traditional conception the results are reversed. Similarly, they point to the existence of three groups. Therefore, teacher training in the constructivist conception is necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how Millán-Puelles considers man as a creature with a nature –a principle of operations which is determined but not fi xed– that is endowed with the possibility of perfection. On this basis, the human being can advance on the path of plenitude through the use of freedom in accordance with truth. This is the educational process in which freedom bridges the gap between indigence of nature and its perfection. It is to educate by leading the human being to plenitude, allowing them to grow in good and complete their being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present the design and validation of the Socio-Familial Questionnaire of Emerging Literacy Domains (CSDAE), which evaluates the context of socio-familial literacy of Chilean children at early ages. The study included a sample of 213 families of low, low-middle and middle socio-economic levels. The results show a reliability according to Cronbach's alpha of 0.90 and an omega coeffi cient of 0.94. The fi rst version of the questionnaire grouped the items into fi ve factors that explained a satisfactory fi t. The proposed instrument contributes to studies related to the evaluation of the literate socio-familial environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current global context there are educational proposals which have arisen due to transnational phenomena. This is the case of character education, which received a clear boost in the US in the 1990s and soon transcended the US borders. In this paper we propose the need to assess the social, economic and cultural conditions of the specific local framework in order to determine the content of an adequate character education program. We consider this in the case of Paraguay, where the educational indicators, the lifestyle of young people or the great cultural diversity determine any proposal of intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, there are experiences with ICT in the hospital schools. Nevertheless, there have been few studies about how technology can improve educational processes and the premises to consider. From this starting point, we present in this paper, a proposal for curriculum integration of ICT for hospital teachers. It is the main contribution of this paper along with the exhaustive analysis of previous studies. This evaluation research has tried to contribute useful knowledge to meet the needs of a real educational context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The way teachers assess in classroom impact over cognitive and socio-affective development of the students. This paper aims to determine the relationship between the teacher's evaluation to their students, and the academic achievement of their students in four specific areas: Linguistic Competence, Mathematical Competence, Scientific Competence, and Social and Citizenship Competence. To reach our aim, this paper made a special analysis with the data of the Spanish General Diagnostic Evaluation -2009- to 28,708 students, and 1341 teachers of 887 schools. The use of Multilevel Model Analysis with three levels shows the impact of each evaluation strategy on the four competencies studied. Our study confirms those teachers who prepare exams after each lesson, give homework, review notebooks, and value the interest and participation of students in classroom do better. On the other side, we have found an inverse relationship between prepare quarterly exams and the skill development of the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to advance the discussion installed about on the limited impact of educational research in real practice of teachers. To do was performed a review of the main causes of the so-called "crisis" of educational research, analyzing the main elements that hinder the relationship with teachers and that keeps us away of the contributions of scientific studies. Among these causes there are without number elements involved, ranging from conflict of interests between politics and educational research to distrust of research articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a process of cooperative inquiry carried out in Valencia from February 2010 to March 2011 is described and its results are analyzed. Its main goals were to reflect on the meanings of global citizenship and on the educative practice that school and university teachers could do together in order to promote global citizenship through the formal education system. The paper begins with an introduction development education; later key aspects of the cooperative inquiry processes are highlighted, the process followed is described and the main reflections on global citizenship and educative spaces are discussed. Finally, we conclude with a reflection on what CI methodology could bring to educational research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to address an issue that has not yet been the subject of significant study: religious education in teacher training, in light of the 1979 Agreement on Education and Cultural Affairs. The wording of Article IV of the Agreement on Education and Cultural Affairs seems clear and the courts have endorsed a literal interpretation of the text. However, there are also interpretive criteria and resources that render this view less apparent: the authoritative interpretation made by government bodies; the relative weight of the subject in teacher training programs; and the academic practice of public universities in Spain. An overall assessment of the criteria discloses that implantation in practice may be poor because it fails to respect the object and ends of the Agreement as such. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an empirical study on the progressive introduction of interactive whiteboard (IWB) in classrooms of 20 schools in Spain. The participant teachers experimented with the use of Promethean IWB in their classrooms during academic years 2008 to 2010. The process of experimentation was backed up with 2 conferences and 2 work-shops for training and feed-back, and complemented with online information. We present some of the most common IWB uses and especially the evaluation results of IWB learning outcomes (in the classroom), with regard to IWB didactic uses, advantages, disadvantages, students' academic performance and competencies aimed at. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an empirical study of factors affecting use of virtual campus by Business Administration undergraduate students at Universidad Católica San Antonio. The study was based on Davis' (1989) technology acceptance model. Results confirm the model's predictions: perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use positively influence attitude toward this technological tool. Moreover, attitude and subjective norm positively affect a student's actual use of virtual campus. Influence of certain socioeconomical variables on the use of virtual campus was also tested. The analysis suggests that students' gender, age and labour situation influence determinant factors of investigated behaviour. Final outcomes of the paper allow not only for a more complete knowledge of factors affecting students' perception, attitude and behaviour towards virtual campus, but also for drawing proposals to achieve a more effective implementation of this technological tool in university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a new formulation of the musical identity from the notion of the complete education of the human being and the experiences made in the fi eld of the psychology of music. From the induction of emotions in the experience of beauty, a person participates in musical consumption as a response to that experience. Thus, an aesthetic dialogue, which is both a mark on the musical identity and the personal identity, becomes essential to a complete education of the person. Following conclusions affecting educators in a broadest sense and also in the practice of music education arise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The results of the TIMSS 2011 study, an international survey that assesses the educational skills of students enrolled in primary education, highlight the gap between the level of Spanish students and the average of OECD countries, especially in mathematics. The aim of this paper is to analyze the main factors behind the Spanish student performance in this competence. For that purpose, we apply multilevel regression techniques, since the available data are nested at different levels (students, classes and schools). The results confirm some evidences found for secondary education as well as other specific aspects for the case of primary education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The issues about the esse, the person and the consciousness of Jesus are strongly present in modern and contemporary Christology. Due to the complexity of the subject itself, and to the large number of studies dealing with it, is not easy to obtain a clear idea about the situation of Theology at this point. This paper analyses and compares the recent Christology Handbooks in Spanish, in order to examine their approach and their explanations about these issues within the whole of Christology. Our aim is to penetrate the current situation of Christology and to provide an overview of the present time Christology Handbooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, Error Analysis is applied to the teaching of writing in Spanish as a first language. As the main theoretical bases we have followed Eugenio Coseriu's model, which establishes three levels of linguistic competence: general linguistic competence, particular linguistic competence and textual competence. We have analyzed and classified errors taken from 138 texts written by 46 students belonging to the last course of Secondary School (second course of Bachillerato). Our aim has been to discover the set of correlations among errors and textual sequences (narrative and argumentative). Therefore we have checked in the corpus to what degree some types of error are independent of textual sequence, whereas in others, sequence is essential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of 2008, the Generalitat of Catalonia made to known the results of a new study. These data have re-opened the eternal debate about the linguistic competences of the Catalan students. Using this document, as a starting point, this paper pursues an analysis of the most outstanding information from the Study in relation to the stated linguistic abilities, emphasizing some of the most important challenges for the Educational System: to improve the levels of knowledge in Catalan, Spanish and foreign languages, and the need to look for a further equity among native and immigrant schoolchildren in the access to the languages of the school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I analyze how Rawls approaches material inequalities, both within democratic societies and in his reflections on the law of peoples. In this regard, considerations such as his positive valuation of social inequality or his inattention to the economic development of peoples, lead me to conclude that Rawls supports a conservative position regarding such problems as poverty or global development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the influence of the Neoplatonic tradition on the thought of St. Thomas with respect to the causality of God's goodness. The maxim "bonum est diffusivum sui," generally attributed to Pseudo-Dionysius, will be discussed and interpreted in terms of final causality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Each time and more frequently every day institutions of non formal education are assuming an increasing relevance in people's permanent training. This paper sums U.P. a research carried out on a national level, based on one of these institutions which at the present time had more than two million students. We are talking about the Spanish popular universities currently are expanded by in 22 Provinces of 11 Autonomous Communities: Andalucía, Aragón, Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Castilla León and Valencia. In this research three types of questionnaires were used for every sector related to this project: managers, monitors and participants. At the same time, we carried out a case study in the Popular University of Loja (Granada) so as to make the data collected more significant in this way, we have been able to characterize and describe the main tasks of Spanish "Popular Universities" and the vision that each of the mentioned sectors have of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last few years, the discussion on academic success of immigrants' children from all over the world has become a key issue and one of the greatest challenges for all the countries (OECD, 2006; Nusche, 2009). This article offers an approach to a situation that has become more complex due to the increased number of immigrant children integrated into schools in the USA. This paper reviews various research studies carried out in USA, a country with a long tradition in integrating immigrant students. It analyzes the various theories which explain the success and failure of first and second generation immigrant children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research analyzes Vicente de Beauvais's work De eruditione filiorum nobilium. It is written in 1247 and constitutes the first treatise of systematic pedagogy of the medieval culture. The paper has three parts: the first analyzes the concept of education as process of restoration of the divine image in man; the second focuses on the familiar education, both social and matrimonial; the third part studies the education of women and the importance of celibacy. The work is practically unpublished in the Castilian historiography. This analysis is based on the file 10254 (Ii 2) (XIV), f. 65-118v. of the National Library of Madrid and on an incunabulum of 1477. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we examine issues concerning the nature and mission of the University, and some problems that this Institution must face in order to assume its role facing the XXI century, namely, the fragmentation of knowledge and bureaucracy. We examine Pope Benedict XVI's contributions to these themes along his first five years at the Holy See. At the end of the paper, we make some comments on the three key features he proposes as Universities' distinctive elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I develop the broad outlines of an investigation which analyses the sense and the meaning of the concepts of "common good" and "general interest" in the rhetoric of present day government. I will also try to respond to the question of whether both concepts are perfectly interchangeable in the public debate or, on the contrary, the concepts in fact derive from antagonistic backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on the status quaestionis of Visual Studies in Spain; particularly on the still latent opposition to traditional studies of History of Art. This confrontation, which reminds us of the times of dialectics, does not help students to appreciate art museums nor the aesthetic experience that accompany such an activity. This impoverishes their cultural development as regards visual literacy and visual criticism. The views expressed by Peter Fuller in Seeing through Berger (1988), a strong critique of John Berger's best-selling work "Ways of Seeing," as well as the views of Panovsky and Gombrich, are referred to by the author as examples of this polemic discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the role that European football plays in the most diverse orders, and due to its global dimension, this is a phenomenon deserving careful examination. Native and ultimately, football is a sport activity, which entails the promotion of values leading to improve education, social integration, healthy style of life, good use of leisure, etc. At the same time, modern football has turned into one of the largest industries of entertainment, thereby demanding -- at least according to some people -- a broader frame in which the rules of the free market, commercial aims and media value of players ought to be accepted as major factors configuring the industry. Within this context emerges the debate about the role that football should play in future society. The goal of these pages is analyzing contrasting opinions on this issue, but also providing information for positioning oneself in the debate. The paper concludes that, regardless which of the two extreme viewpoints will prevail, the media value of players and teams must not be nelected in the discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a society such as the present one, in which we are living in a permanent process of innovation, there is no doubt that numerous challenges are being presented in everyday life. This situation requires an answer from education, so as to reach a comprehensive development of the person. So it is necessary to develop and strengthen the education in different spheres and from complementary educational forces. This paper starts with a few pedagogical reflections about how the city can be an educative agent, and then, analyses different conditions succeed in educational objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text tries to draw the attention of the reader to a rather neglected concept in theoretical reflections on education, usually focused on the instrumental aspects of teaching. It is about the notion of habit. If education has something to do with personal development, it has to be understood as the promotion of some intellectual and moral habits that make our lives more fulfilled. This paper briefly describes the concept of person and then tackles the issue of personal growth through habits. Habits are the prolongation of our primary nature. They make our lives more livable and provide us with an auto-availability that makes us more free. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development which has recently taken place in Social Pedagogy is an academic, social and professional answer to new educational needs which have been demanded by the society in the last years. At the present time, it is a living creative and expansionist time. This situation is known as "Social Pedagogy in construction", and it implies a concept of Social Education which is seen as an important agent for social change. Nowadays, the most important priority is giving an appropriate answer in order to solve sociocultural problems. To do so, socioeducational strategies of intervention are expected. In this paper, we try to provide objective and scientific knowledge about the development of this pedagogical science, its current reality and challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the main documents and Charters related to sick paediatric patients' rights, and focuses mainly on the right to education for children and adolescents when they are in anomalous situations such as that of being ill or hospitalised. From the European Hospital Organisation of Pedagogues and the specific example of Spain, it shows how this right can be established. Currently, the pedagogical action is mainly carried out in the hospital classroom and home attendance is starting to be developed as another facet of Hospital Pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents research pertaining to children and their perceptions of television advertising. The research also looks into their role as consumers as influenced by television. In the first section, several issues are analyzed including the evolution of the relationship between children and television. The paper goes on to discuss several relevant topics pertaining to advertising towards children and then goes on to discuss the historical origins and evolution of the academic research pertaining to publicity.